In 2025, New Zealand lost 271 people on its roads – in Australia that number was 1,314. Behind every one of those numbers is a person who didn’t make it home. It’s a stat that EROAD Product Director Soumya Puri opened with at Fleet Days 2026 to highlight the point that fleet safety is about the people – not some abstract compliance exercise. In this 25-minute Studio session, Soumya walks through five safety outcomes that can be achieved with the right technology, people and processes.

While the statistics referenced in the video are local, the same safety outcomes discussed apply equally to Australia and form a core part of the Chain of Responsibility.

“Safety isn’t just the right thing to do. It’s operational and financial resilience.”
— Soumya Puri, Product Director, EROAD

What’s covered:

• Investigating accidents — how video helps resolve incidents in minutes rather than days, protect your drivers and support exoneration when they’ve done nothing wrong
• Managing fatigue — from digital logbooks and break reminders through to AI fatigue detection, seat shakers and 24/7 human escalation. Most providers do one of these. EROAD covers the full cycle
• Coaching safer drivers — building a culture of good driving rather than policing bad driving, with real-time prompts, driver login accountability and leaderboards that genuinely change behaviour
• Controlling speed — virtual speed zones, geo-alerts and reporting that turns speed from a reactive problem into a measurable, coachable metric
• Keeping unsafe vehicles off the road — digital pre-start inspections and dashcam health monitoring that stop problems at the gate, before they reach the road.

The session includes real customer stories and performance metrics and a challenge Soumya put to every fleet manager in the room — one worth taking on whether you watched live or are watching now.

“The best fleets don’t buy features. They buy outcomes.”
— Soumya Puri, Product Director, EROAD

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Note: Customer results referenced in this session are based on EROAD customer data. Results may vary depending on fleet size, vehicle type, driver behaviour and operating conditions

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